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Would You Rather … Get Married In A Bikini À La Pam Anderson Or In Your High School Prom Dres

Leonora EpsteinJune 18, 2010 //

Welcome to Would You Rather, a game in which we concoct hypothetical style dilemmas and ask you to choose which option’s worse.

OK people, time for another round of our just-for-kicks-and-giggles game. Seeing as it’s both wedding and prom season, we decided to consider them both in this challenge. So, would you rather … get married in a string bikini à la Pamela Anderson (even if your wedding wasn’t at the beach!) or use your senior prom dress as your wedding gown? Some things to consider: go the bathing suit route and you’ll be nearly naked in front of your entire family. (Although, who knows, maybe your prom dress was just as slutty?) And, while the prom gown option seems more realistic, there’s a good chance you now have recurring nightmares about it. (We do.) Sound off in the comments below! Keep reading »

How Much Should A Wedding Dress Cost, Anyway?

Erin FlahertyMarch 25, 2010 //

And so it begins. I promised myself I wouldn’t fall into the usual trappings of being engaged, such as posting pictures of my ring on Facebook and devoting hours each day to The Dress Search. And so far, I’ve kept my cool, for the most part anyway. Still, that hasn’t stopped me from Googling “design your own wedding dress” and clicking on the bridal section at Net-a-Porter every now and then. (I was there to look at some sandals, I swear!) The latter departure led me to this little Lanvin number, which retails for a cool $10,860. Wait, I’m sorry, what was that? Correct — over 10K for a dress you wear once. Not that I’m shocked or anything. It’s Lanvin, not Forever 21. (Do they do bridal? Must check.) But it did get me wondering about how much women are actually willing to spend on these things. Keep reading »

Girl Talk: I’m Addicted To “Platinum Weddings”

Jessica WakemanJanuary 12, 2010 //

I feel like I need to issue a preemptive apology to my mother, my boyfriend’s mother and my boyfriend’s grandmother: I won’t be a “fun” bride.

I will probably be more of a wet blanket, really. I won’t get excited about table settings or flower girl dresses. I won’t even care about the cake (much). I’m a little excited about buying a special dress for the Big Day, but honestly, whenever I look at wedding dress prices, I start to hyperventilate. Keep reading »

Would You Wear A Black Wedding Dress?

Wendy AtterberryNovember 20, 2009 //

The Daily Mail is reporting today that black, a color traditionally saved for funerals and looking street chic, is the new color choice for wedding dresses among modern brides. While I don’t doubt that many women are bucking tradition and going with darker colors, I have a hard time believing that black, despite how slimming and elegant it is, is now the “shade of choice,” as the paper insinuates. Then again, they did quote an “expert” from a wedding website that gets all of 2,000 visitors a month (for perspective, The Frisky gets about that many visitors every 25 minutes), so maybe there’s some validity to the claim. The trend is in response to the recession (of course!) and brides’ desire to buy a dress they can wear more than once. I don’t buy it for a second, do you? Would you buy a black gown for that reason? Would you really wear your dress again after your wedding? Doesn’t that kind of make it seem less special? [via Daily Mail] Keep reading »

Are These Wedding Dresses Fug Or What?

Susannah BreslinNovember 19, 2009 //

I’m a regular watcher of TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress.” Why? I have no idea. If you’ve never seen it, the reality show takes place at Kleinfeld Bridal, a huge bridal store in Manhattan. Each half-hour episode follows three or four brides shopping for their wedding gowns. Usually, some hijinks occur. A mom is mean to a bride! Somebody cries! A husband sees the dress before the wedding! For sure, women have diverse tastes when it comes to what to get married in, from the totally conservative to the downright weird. But there’s a certain type of bride who likes a certain type of dress. She’ll start out by saying she wants a gown with a “wow factor.” Something that “glitters.” Something that’s “over the top!” Then, she’ll mention her favorite designer by name; invariably, it’s Pnina Tornai. Take this one, for example. It’s Aphrodite meets Liberace by way of silver lamé. Fug of fantastical? Sound off in the comments. More after the jump… Keep reading »

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